13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!(A)
    Your incense(B) is detestable(C) to me.
New Moons,(D) Sabbaths and convocations(E)
    I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
14 Your New Moon(F) feasts and your appointed festivals(G)
    I hate with all my being.(H)
They have become a burden to me;(I)
    I am weary(J) of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands(K) in prayer,
    I hide(L) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
    I am not listening.(M)

Your hands(N) are full of blood!(O)

16 Wash(P) and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;(Q)
    stop doing wrong.(R)
17 Learn to do right;(S) seek justice.(T)
    Defend the oppressed.[a](U)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;(V)
    plead the case of the widow.(W)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor

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